Re: feature negotiation?

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 05:14:55PM -0600, Karl Fogel wrote:
> Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:
> > I'm posting this question to the list, because I see two possible
> > responses to this situation:
> >
> > * "Who cares, this is pre-alpha software. Glitches like that are to
> > be expected if you don't 'keep up'".
> >
> > * "We'd better create svn-level feature negotiation. Something like
> > this might bite us in the future again."
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> Hmmm.
>
> I kind of think we should do it now, but not necessarily use it for
> features that are going to be unconditionally part of 1.0. That is,
> the feature negotiation would be a placeholder, not actually
> mentioning any features right now; then as we add RA-level features
> after 1.0, we put those into the negotiation.
>
> Interested to hear what others think, though.

If you don't start out with atleast a few feature negotations, the code
wont be tested, and may well bite you later anyway :)

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